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Actor playing Susanna in "The Crucible" fixes her costume in a mirror backstage.
The Arts
February 14, 2023 | 09:50 am

Changing the narrative about Blackness on the stage

By partnering with Black actors and artists, the International Theatre Program’s recent productions help give new dimension to marginalized characters.

topics: community engagement, diversity, featured-post-side, Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, Nigel Maister, performing arts, School of Arts and Sciences,
two student actors seated on a stage, both looking away from each other.
The Arts
September 27, 2022 | 08:53 am

Sam Chanse play premieres at Sloan Performing Arts Center

Fellowship is the latest production commissioned as part of the International Theatre Program’s New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights

topics: Department of English, Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theater Program, Nigel Maister, performing arts, School of Arts and Sciences,
Laurel Lawson hovers above the stage, arms and wheels lifted, supported by Alice Sheppard who partners her from below. Alice is on her back, lifting Laurel, locking eyes and opening her arms in embrace. They are surrounded by small wood ramps and bathed in cool blue light. Laurel is a white dancer with cropped blue hair and Alice is a multiracial Black woman with short curly hair; their skin, shimmery costumes and chairs reflect the light.
In Photos
September 12, 2022 | 04:40 pm

Disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light performs at the Sloan Performing Arts Center

The internationally recognized ensemble Kinetic Light performed at the Sloan Performing Arts Center as part of the group’s fall 2022 East Coast tour. Using art, technology, design, and dance, the artists create, perform, and teach at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.

topics: diversity, Institute for the Performing Arts, Missy Pfohl Smith, performing arts, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences, Sloan Performing Arts Center,
Closeup of student with glam rock hair and makeup wearing a clear face mask.
In Photos
February 23, 2022 | 10:54 am

Costume-ready for ‘fabulously fun’ glam rock theater

A behind-the-scenes photo gallery shows the International Theatre Program gearing up for its production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

topics: Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, Nigel Maister, performing arts, School of Arts and Sciences, Take Five Scholars Program,
Man lifts a woman up in an embrace during a performance of Stupid F-cking Bird.
The Arts
November 29, 2021 | 05:32 pm

Inaugural theater production at Sloan Performing Arts Center opens December 2

The International Theatre Program returns to in-person performances as it presents Aaron Posner’s Stupid F*cking Bird, a modern adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.

topics: Department of English, featured-post-side, Institute for the Performing Arts, International Theatre Program, Nigel Maister, performing arts, School of Arts and Sciences,
A dozen or so members of the all-female Vocal Point a cappella group lit up on a dark stage.
The Arts
September 13, 2021 | 04:21 pm

University takes the stage at 10th annual KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival

The recently opened Sloan Performing Arts Center on the River Campus gives Rochester’s arts community a new venue to shine.

topics: Eastman Community Music School, Eastman School of Music, featured-post-side, Institute for the Performing Arts, performing arts, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences,
Jay Yan holds a drill atop a scaffold and smiles at the camera with his mosaic mural in the background.
The Arts
August 31, 2021 | 05:04 pm

Mosaic graces walls of new River Campus performance space

Chinese American artist Jay Yan installed a mural made of nearly 8,000 mirrored discs in the University of Rochester’s Sloan Performing Arts Center.

topics: Allen Topolski, featured-post-side, Institute for the Performing Arts, performing arts, School of Arts and Sciences, Sloan Performing Arts Center,